York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

Series consists of material that documents Coles' academic career at the University of Toronto and Cambridge University, as well as his years spent as a professor in the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto. It includes copies of essays, as well as manuscript and typescript notes taken by Coles while he was a student. Included are notes taken by Coles while completing course work with Northrop Frye, advice from Frye regarding an academic career in 1964, his rough first draft of his M.A. thesis, and columns and reports for the University of Toronto Daily Press. It also contains course files related to Coles' work as professor. These files consist of course outlines, reading lists, lecture notes, clippings related to course material, correspondence related to his teaching and other material that documents the ongoing development and delivery of the courses Man in Search, Concepts of Love, Early Times : Literature and the Imagination of the Child, Myth and the Arts and Works & Days. Records also include annotated working copies of monographs used in his courses and certificates received pertaining to his academics and teaching.

National Magazine Awards certificate awarded to Don Coles

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Item
1997

Part of Don Coles fonds

Item pertains to a National Magazine Award prize for poetry awarded to Coles for a poem published in “The Malahat Review”.

“The Rhodes Scholar” : drafts

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File
[200-?]

Part of Don Coles fonds

File consists of handwritten and typescript copies of this play written by Coles.

Published works by Don Coles

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File
1964, 1971-2016

Part of Don Coles fonds

Reviews and articles about Don Coles

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File
1975-2008

Part of Don Coles fonds

Arc : Canada’s national poetry magazine : Don Coles at 75, Arc at 25 (Summer 2003)

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Item
2003

Part of Don Coles fonds

Book reviews by Don Coles

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File
1966-2001

Part of Don Coles fonds

Job and “Fear and Trembling”

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File
1977-1992

Part of Don Coles fonds

File predominantly consists of Coles’ notes for an unidentified project, as well as a draft paper by Coles on Bloomsbury writers, and notes on “Symbolism in Medieval Thought” by H.P. Dunbar. Included in the file is a draft letter from Coles to his daughter.

Photograph of Don Coles

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Item
[ca. 1967]

Part of Don Coles fonds

“Sailing from Sweden : partir, c'est vivre un peu” : draft

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Item
1958, 1965

Part of Don Coles fonds

Item is a draft poem by Coles, originally created in 1958, revised in 1965.

“Kurgan” promotional bookmark

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Item
[ca. 2000]

Part of Don Coles fonds

Item features an image of Coles standing in front of Indigo Bookstore.

“Sometimes All Over” : draft manuscript

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Item
[between 1970 and 1975]

Part of Don Coles fonds

“Pilgrim Son : a comedy”

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Item
[ca. 1953]

Part of Don Coles fonds

Item is a typescript copy of a play written by Coles.

“Danae : a verse play in one act”

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Item
[195-?]

Part of Don Coles fonds

Item is a typescript copy of a play written by Coles.

Correspondence from David Pease, Arvon International Poetry Competition

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File
8 Mar. 1988, 8 May 1989

Part of Don Coles fonds

File pertains to the selection of Coles’ poem, “Driving with her in the car”, by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney for special commendation in the 1987 Arvon International Poetry Competition.

Glassco translation prize

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Item
May 1997

Part of Don Coles fonds

Item is the minutes for the annual general meeting of L’Association des Traducteurs et Traductrices Littéraires du Canada, which includes details about Coles as recipient of the 1996 Prix John-Glassco.

All on the water sleeping [A pretty good year] / a novel by D.L. Coles